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 CORRESPONDENCE.

Bibliography of the Writings of the Late Sir Laurence GoMME ON Anthropology and Folklore.

Lady Goninie's Bibliography of Sir Laurence's splendid life- work omits one item : " On the Method of Determining the Value of Folklore as Ethnological Data," Report of British Association, Liverpool, 1896, pp. 626-656.

Edward Brabrook.

Christmas Candles.

I should be much obliged if you could inform me where I could obtain information regarding the custom of burning two candles on Christmas Eve. As far back as I can remember this was done in our family, and has been continued regularly until now.

E. C. Blanchard.

10 Great College Street, Westminster, S.W.

[Burning the Christmas Candle — there is generally only one — is a common custom in Cumberland, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire, and is probably still practised in Northumberland, where in 1725 the Rev. Henry Bourne gave the following account of it : " Our Forefathers, when the common Devotions of the Eve were over, and Night was come on, were wont to light up Candles of an uncommon Size, which were called Christmas-Candles, and to lay a Log of Wood upon the Fire, which they termed a Yule-Clog, or